The 9,000-Year-Old Underground Megalithic Settlement of Atlit Yam Not far off the coast of the village of Atlit in the Mediterranean Sea, near Haifa in Israel, lies the submerged ruins of the ancient Neolithic site of Atlit Yam. The prehistoric settlement, which dates back to the 7th millennium BC, has been so well preserved by …

Jackpot: 900-Year-Old Gold Coins, Dating Back to The Crusades, Found in Israel Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered a trove of rare gold coins and a 900-year-old gold earring at the site of a Crusader mᴀssacre. Officials announced the discovery earlier this week, explaining that the artefacts were found at the ancient city of Caesarea on …

Scientists discover remains of Hobbit humans that stood only 3ft high and lived 700,000 years ago in Indonesia SCIENTISTS have discovered the fossils of a “hobbit” that lived 700,000 years ago on an Indonesian island. The homo floresienis were ancient humans that lived between 100,000 and 50,000 years ago. Adults stood just three-and-a-half feet tall and …

Luxurious 1,200-year-old mansion found in southern Israel Between two mosques in Rahat, archaeologists uncover an opulent home with a finished basement that likely belonged to a wealthy landowner in the early Islamic Period Luxury can be found in unexpected places. Archaeologists announced Tuesday the discovery of a 1,200-year-old estate in Israel’s southern Negev desert, boasting …

Ancient DNA adds to evidence of Native Americans’ east Asian ancestry An ancient woman’s skull from south-west China suggests she was related to a population that migrated from east Asia to North America 14,000 years ago, DNA has shown. Researchers have sequenced the genomes of ancient human fossils from the Late Pleistocene in southern China for …

Have Scholars Finally Deciphered a Mysterious Ancient Script? A mysterious writing system that is nearly as old as cuneiform but used a different set of symbols and that has remained undeciphered for centuries may have finally been deciphered. Based on ancient silver vessels, the researchers propose a new method for decoding the Linear Elamite script, …

Archaeologists uncover the ancient city and hundreds of artefacts close to Baghdad An archaeological dig in Al-Suwaira, some 60km south of Baghdad, has revealed an ancient Parthian (247BC to 224AD) city and unearthed more than 200 artefacts. According to a statement from Iraq’s State Board of Antiquities and Heritage (SBAH) the recently completed 150-day mission …

Reconstruction Offers a Glimpse of the Face of “Penang Woman” GEORGE TOWN: Five years after researchers from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) found a prehistoric human skeleton, dubbed the “Penang Woman”, believed to be at least 5,000 years old, they scored another major breakthrough. This time around, the same researchers have put a face to the …

The cache of Ancient Knucklebones Discovered in Israel In this vale of tears, any help peering into the future would be useful. Now, archaeologists report finding over 600 astragali – small bones from quadruped feet – in the ancient city of Maresha, central Israel. Dating to the city’s Hellenistic period some 2,300 years ago, what …